Seeking and Traveling Deeper
Silk Trade and Pilgrim Routes of Southern Armenia. A journey from the sophisticated streets of Yerevan to the mountains of Southern Armenia discovering the hidden trade and pilgrim routes and among the ancient and modern villages of rural Armenia
Journey dates:
2022:
Inaugural journey 13th to 25th September
2023
Background of the journey
Our founder, Gavin Anderson, has advised on rural development projects in Armenia for more than 13 years. He has built up a relationship with small local development organisations, conservation bodies and mountain communities. This unique journey was developed by Nomadic Skies in collaboration with a small local rural development organisation (SDA), The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Armenia, local mountain communities and Gevorg Gasparyen a leading mountain climber trek leader, who Gavin first met around 10 years ago when he was working as a veterinarian adviser in hill communities in Armenia.
18 days
A conservation journey exploring not only into the habitats of the iconic and endangered snow Leopard, but also its cultural and spiritual significance amongst the high Himalayan communities of Dolpo and the experiences of local herders, yak caravan traders and farmers.
2022
Inaugural trip: 19th October to 5th November 2022
2023 Journeys:
Now being developed with our pioneer journey in summer 2023
An extraordinary journey by foot among little visited villages, through equatorial forest, across crater lakes by dug-out-canoe and to the African Alpine zone of the high Virunga Volcanoes - the habitat of the Mountain Gorilla.
2023: Inaugural journey 23rd July to 7th August
16 days
A stunning trekking journey to the sacred and other-worldly Lake Phoksundo among little visited villages, monastries and stunning landscapes of the hidden, culturally Tibetan valleys of the High Himalaya of North West Nepal.
2023: